Houston Mayor John Whitmire's administration plans to ramp up the effort to remove homeless people from public spaces in July. "Our goal is to get the homeless off the streets of Houston," Whitmire ...

Shielded from the sun beneath a canopy tent, Kim Damon slouched in a folding chair on Vermont SE. Her hairdresser, whom she had met for the first time moments earlier, had set up the impromptu salon ...

In the early 1970s, bike activists in Bogotá, Colombia convinced their city leaders to close two major thoroughfares to car traffic, giving the space to people riding bikes and walking for one day.

Apart from the giant yellow bird, the red furry monster and the blue Muppet with an insatiable appetite for cookies, “Sesame Street” appears as real as the New York City streets that inspired it.